Everything in the menu is $7++. You wouldn't know it if you don't read Korean but its on the corner of Bloor and Clinton. The signs are all in Korean. The menu is all in Korean with simple English that is not translated well so if you have not eaten Korean food before, then you'll be at a loss - but you can always point to whatever your neighbouring seat is having (if you fancy it) and voila! It'll be at your table in about 15 minutes. Its packed. Its bustling. Is it clean? Don't go to the bathrooms.
Don't stare at the waiters who sometimes pick their runny noses. Don't try to look through the kitchen window (you won't be able to see anything since its so tiny). The food is fab. If you speak Korean, you're in luck. Ed and I had our Bulgogi and Dolsot Bibimbob but look at the photo on the right, what is this? Its water poured to my rice container. It was turning progressively brown as we were going through our meal. Was I to make it as a soup? Was it a hand sanitizer of some sort? We've been to many Korean restaurants in many countries including Korea but maybe we haven't been to one where they actually do this - we have much to learn about Korean meal service. If you know what we were supposed to do with this, do tell. None of our neighbours were touching their brown water-on-rice pots either.
Overall rating? Lots to upgrade and improve if they want to be world class. The way their business is going, they may not care. But for sustainability and when there's actual government sanctioned restaurant rating systems, they'd need to clean up the place and put English signs. It was an experience though. Want an adventure, head out to Clinton and Bloor. Parking is not that difficult in this area of town.

Comments (2)
I ate there too! It was delicious. The water poured on your rice is to soften it so you can eat it. The crunchy rice that sticks to the stone pot (as I've heard it called) is rice-bop. Some people like to eat the crunchy bits.
Posted by John | December 2, 2007 7:23 PM
Posted on December 2, 2007 19:23
watered down rice... hmm... not sure i'd eat it and unfortunately have not seen anyone in the restaurant eating it as well when we were there...thanks for clearing that up for me though now I know what it was for.
Posted by richard | December 2, 2007 9:32 PM
Posted on December 2, 2007 21:32